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Marketing, minus the jargon.

Practical advice on marketing, comms, creative sourcing and websites, drawn from three decades of actually doing the work.

Marketing8 September 2026

The hostage negotiator's guide to social media

Five things businesses get wrong on social media, and how to talk yourself down before you post something you'll regret.

Tanya holds a wooden bottle opener shaped like a penis

Marketing20 August 2026

When you don’t know what to post?

Stuck what to post? Read about the wooden bottle opener, if nothing else it’ll give you a laugh!

Digital Comms5 July 2026

How to show up online consistently without it eating your week

Consistency beats brilliance every time. Here's the content-pillar and batching system I set up for clients so their marketing keeps running through a busy week, with the ratio and the metrics that actually matter.

Tanya contemplating what a website project needs.

Web Services4 July 2026

Five signs your website is quietly costing you leads

A tired website leaks enquiries without you noticing. Here are the five faults I find most in a website audit, what each one costs you, and how to fix it, including the ones that also hurt your Google ranking.

A tote bag printed edge to edge with a custom design

Creative Sourcing24 June 2026

Promotional products that get used, and the ones that get binned

Thirty years of sourcing branded kit, distilled: the decoration methods that actually suit your product, the small details that sink orders, and how to buy merch that gets used instead of binned.

Tanya talking through marketing ideas at an outdoor table

Marketing10 June 2026

In-house marketing hire or outsourced marketing manager? How to choose

Should you hire a marketer or bring one in from outside? After years on both sides, here's the real cost of a hire, the trap most businesses fall into, and how to decide.

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